Tag Archives: femnism

Cultural Graffiti

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

This is an old, old poem I am revising, as I believe it still has relevance today.  This does have ***FOUL LANGUAGE***  in it (I use a word in here I have never said–ever, and I don’t read this one … Continue reading →

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tone of voice

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we are instruments and our voices are well-tuned; sometimes we breathe language lightly & those scales feather skin like foreplay those tones you like, stroking spine & weaving through hair like elegant fingers but our words, too, carry little weight … Continue reading →

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silencing

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

when I think of silencing I think of guns, a shot muffled, muted disguised into something else murder execution-style but with cowardice but this too is cowardice 2 women gaveled silent elected women stopped from speaking because 1 word echoed … Continue reading →

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77 cents

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I want those 23 cents per dollar that some man made more than me for that precise thinking, for that same lifting, for my exact educational level and similar scrubbing–money lost for every second of my life worked I want … Continue reading →

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XX

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

XX:  No, not the rating for porn flicks, or a row of kisses on a love letter– the chromosome that divides us as a species into 2 rough halves. I don’t want to say female, I don’t want to say woman, … Continue reading →

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Cultural Graffiti

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

****This is an old, old poem I am revising, as I believe it still has relevance today.  This does have strong language in it (I use a word in here I have never said–ever, and I don’t read this one … Continue reading →

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life begins at menstruation

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

in some states the bloody slough of cells exiting unneeded from the chalice of  this body 14 days before half of the equation adding up to life breaks free & looks for strong-swimming sperm is now the moment life begins legally. … Continue reading →

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